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Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

The time has come to again report for duty, my attractive, intelligent, and oh-so-discriminating readers. Yes, that's right; through only a minuscule amount of effort you can ensure that I am lavished with a prestigous award: the 2008 Weblog Award for Best Food Blog.

(Sure, had it been left up to me I would have placed Cake Wrecks in the 'Best Humor Blog' category, but it wasn't, so I couldn't. [shrug] The powers that be at the Weblogs place each blog in only one category as a finalist, so we can only bow to their superior authority and, as they say, "go with it". Besides, far be it from me to look a gift award in the mouth, right?)

Oh, and here's the best part: unlike the Blogger's Choice Awards, you don't have to register to vote! Nope, all you have to do is click the link and then click on Cake Wrecks. Badabing, bada boom. You'll even see real-time results of the polls after you vote, which currently look like this:I'm sure that together we can shake those numbers up a bit though, 'cuz you know the best bestest part? You can vote once every day, playahs! Polls close Tuesday, January 13th, so 'til then why not make voting for Cake Wrecks part of your morning routine?

Thanks in advance, my loyal lovelies. You will all be rewarded in the coming Cakey Kingdom...

UPDATE: Oh, and while you're at it, I've just been told that the 2009 Bloggies are now accepting nominations. Honestly, I had no idea there were so many different award sites for blogs! Still, maybe for the Bloggies one of you henchies could nominate Wrecks in a more appropriate category? I mean, I feel kinda bad for the more legitimate "food blogs" on the BCAs. Not bad enough to spoil my fiendish glee at CRUSHING the competition, mind you, but still kinda bad.

Speaking of which, thanks to all of you for voting and for being the a$$-kickin'est group of readers a blogger could ever ask for. I am feelin' the love, guys, and believe me when I say it matters - it really does.

Ok, so the link in the post didn't work, but if you click on the icon to the side where it actually says Weblog Awards, that should get you there. So when I voted, Cake Wrecks had 1372 votes (over 53%) and the nearest (non) competitor was only at 546! Woo hoo! Let's hear it for Cake Wreck Cyber Bullies! im

I certainly hope the anonymous poster who sounded very ugly and mean was just kidding. Nobody would have known that the award blog existed if you hadn't posted this!! And it's not like you twisted our arms to go and vote, WE LOVE YOU and you totally deserve to win!!!

Anonymous said... "Guess you lost sight of the real reason you are here - for fun and making people smile. Now it seems that it is all about fame.

You shouldn't have to ask people to vote for you."

January 6, 2009 6:13 PM***********************************WhatEVER, Dude or Dudette!!!=^??^= Who SAYS she can't have her (wonderful wrecky) CAKE and eat it, too?!? Stick that in your pseudo-righteousness pipe and smoke it!I see a BLUE RIBBON, #1 cake being made somewhere! Yayaw!

Besides!!!Why SHOULDN'T a fantastic thing such as this recieve a bit of a pat on the back for making SO MANY PEOPLE so happy?It's all in fun, anyway.Anything that can make us laugh and feel good (on a daily basis, at that)is deserving of some praise, in my book!I'd never heard of this place before.What a year--Obama AND CakeWrecks!Life is good.****WV: "nowliest": this blog is the nowliest thing going, as in current, in-tune, etc. So very NOW. LOVE it.

OK, so now nobody has a prayer in Hades of winning this category other than CakeWrecks, which is perfectly fine by me! I've been following your blog for months, and it's one of the only blogs I read every day. Here's hoping you win...my vote is in!

my suggestion.... put a link at the top of every day's post, and i will definitely be voting for you each and every day. i love this blog, and i check it daily. unfortunately though, i do have a pretty short memory span, and need reminders :P

So I deleted the comment by anonymous since I'm the husband of the blogger and I can. Oddly enough, Jen was the one who let it go through, though I usually require that negative posters at least have enough courage to put their name down.

One final note to anonymous: Jen's not in this for the fame, I promise. She started this blog on a fluke and now gets a kick out of hopefully making your days a little brighter. I can tell you that Jen is filled with humility and gratitude at the many thousands of wonderful readers who continue to read Cake Wrecks.

I voted and we are winning!!! YEY!! At least I can vote in this election while not being American citizen, feels so good to make a difference ;) Boo to the anonymous poo-poo head who couldnt even put down their real name. Yey for John the hubby who seems super sweet and YEYEYEYE for Jen who makes my day, everyday!

CW has 10 times the number of votes of the nearest competitor - 81% to 8%! There's nothing in the rules that says a blogger can't mention the awards to alert readers to vote. I certainly wouldn't have known otherwise.

And "Anonymous" was right... I mean, you should do what political candidates do, and just sit quietly in a corner hoping that people will hear about the vote and pick you.

Come to think of it, perhaps you should start a slander campaign. Yeah, that's it -- a video complete with black and white, scratchy film showing how despicable Serious Eats is, and how Cake Wrecks will bring about change, and a better future for our children.

KEEP WRECKING! I will vote every day as long as necessary! Too bad we can't vote more than once a day!! Don't forget a reminder at the beginning of each day, so us slow folks don't forget. . . Thanks so much for the great big belly laughs every day!

I tried to vote agin this morning but it hadn't been 24 hours yet so it wouldn't register...but never fear...I will be voting again this evening. I think it's hilarious that when I tried to vote earlier that CW had over 82% of the vote and the closest "competitor" had something like 7%. ;)

For the record, Jen didn't nominate herself, one of us did and a few more of us voted for her to get into the finalist list and the whole time she sat there all quietly and never mentioned it to any of ya'll till after the voting had already started.

Jen, Thanks for always bringing a smile to my mornin routine and thanks for the wonderful blog!

I think you broke the poll already, but I am going to keep voting so we can see just how badly it can be broken.I support your advertising of this poll BTW. It kinda almost seems like the whole point of these polls...

I love it! You appeal to your readers to vote for you when you have 383 votes and 25.2% of the votes. The NEXT day you have 11,148 votes and 84.5% of the votes...your next closest competitor is Serious Eats with 869 votes and 6.6%! Wow, my two votes mattered!

The other sites should be thanking you for the plug (before your link, less than 2,000 votes; 24 hours later, 10,000 votes). At least now I know there is a site "Serious Eats." I feel badly for "Sparklette" with a mere 14 votes. But I'm not going to those other sites, I just like Cake Wrecks. It's not about food, it's about making fun of food.

First time commenting here, but I check in here all the time with my daughter. In fact, on Thanksgiving Day, I had the relatives gathered around the computer and laughing their heads off at the Cake Wrecks(I think I turned a few of those relatives into fans of Cake Wrecks, too) Of course, I voted. :-)

I feel a little bit bad because I love Serious Eats, but I love Cakewrecks far more, so I've already voted twice. You're kicking some blog @$$ there!! I love love LOVE this blog...having a serious baking hobby, I find that this "Failblog for Cakes" gives me endless hours of entertainment...it can pull me out of a funk, even...SO FUNNY. (And the commentary is what makes it the funniest! Please keep up the good work)

holy crap, I just voted, and you are now at over 13,000 votes! The next-best is somewhere in the vicinity of 990.... I feel sorry for them. But not sorry enough to vote for anyone but CakeWrecks! Let's see if we can get to 99% !!!!

Oh yeah, baby. Since you posted the original "vote for this blog!" link, I'm pleased to see that Cake Wrecks went from 26% winning its (note it's not "it is", please) to a freaking 84% winner! Let's hear it for Cake Wrecks!!!! You have a mighty following. :)

I am a faithful lurker, and visit almost everyday! I have voted everyday for your blog because it rocks! You have 14,930, and at 84% by the count it shows right now! Serious Eats (your nearest competitor) has 1,129 at 6.4% I think you have it hun!

We still need to vote everyday, I looked at some of the other sites and they are also having their readers vote everyday (not that we need to apparently, but it wouldn't hurt much...well us anyway!) XD

OK, I have to say that you were totally robbed from being left out of the humor blog category. The only one in humor that even comes close to cake wrecks is the comics curmudgeon. If they accepted write ins you would win hands down in that category too! Blog on, Jen! You're the best! CherylSO'N

I just voted and could not believe how many votes Cake Wrecks has! And here I thought it might be a close call, so I'd better vote to make sure Cake Wrecks had the best chance possible to win. My vote wasn't needed it looks like, but I was glad to cast it anyway!

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